Another 1.9 million teachers will be needed by 2015 to achieve universal primary education, more than half of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

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One third of Commonwealth countries have yet to achieve universal primary education and gender parity, and 27 million Commonwealth children do not currently receive schooling.

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An estimated 18 million new primary teachers will be needed in the next seven years to achieve universal primary education by the target date of 2015.

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Considerable progress has been made to achieve universal primary education.

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More than 800 ideas have already been generated in the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge, which aims to find ways of using mobile communication to help achieve literacy, develop universal primary education, address youth and adult learning needs, enhance the quality of education, and improve gender parity and equality in education.

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